Teaching Epidemiology

Teaching epidemiology requires skill and knowledge, combined with a clear teaching strategy and good pedagogic skills. The general advice is simple: if you are not an expert on a topic, try to enrich your background knowledge before you start teaching. Teaching Epidemiology, third edition helps you to do this, and by providing the world-expert teacher's advice on how best to structure teaching gives a unique insight in to what has worked in their hands. The book will help you plan your own tailored teaching program. The book is a guide to new teachers in the field at two levels; those teaching basic courses for undergraduates, and those teaching more advanced courses for students at postgraduate level. Each chapter provides key concepts and a list of key references. Subject specific methodology and disease specific issues (from cancer to genetic epidemiology) are dealt with in details. There is also a focused chapter on the principles and practice of computer-assisted learning.

Teaching Epidemiology is published in collaboration with the International Association of Epidemiology (IEA) and the European Educational Programme in Epidemiology (EEPE) --Book Jacket.

Teaching epidemiology is a task that requires skills and knowledge. The overriding requirement is knowledge, which should be combined with a clear teaching strategy and good pedogogic skills. The general advice is simple: if you are not an expert on a topic, try to enrich your background knowledge before you start teaching it. Teaching Epidemiology, Second Edition helps you to locate the most important sources of knowledge you need to study before you start, by providing the world expert teachers' advice on how best to structure teaching--a unique insight into what has worked in their hands. The book will help you plan your own tailored teaching program. The book is a guide to new teachers in the field at two levels, those teaching basic courses for undergraduates, and those teaching more advanced course for students at the postgraduate level. Each chapter provides key concepts and a list of key references. Specific methodology and disease, specific issues, from cancer to genetic epidemiology, are dealth with in detail. In this day and age, no book is complete without a focused chapter on the principles and practice of computer assisted learning. This new edition is published in collaboration with the International Association of Epidemiology (IEA) and the Eruopean Programme in Epidemiology (EEPA).

'Teaching Epidemiology' is written for those who are teaching epidemiology for the first time or for those who have to teach a new course in epidemiology. The book covers core issues as well as disease or exposure oriented topics, and provides a carefully selected set of reading material that the teacher should be familiar with.

An introduction to the principles and methods of epidemiology in a Canadian context The third edition of Epidemiology for Canadian Students updates the only introductory epidemiology textbook grounded in Canadian research and studies, and it takes into account the COVID-19 pandemic. Through this resource, students will learn core concepts, while also familiarizing themselves with Canadian registries, special-purpose cohorts, provincial health administrators, national statistical agencies and other sources that inform epidemiologic research in Canada. The third edition includes new links to Statistics Canada resources, updated examples with reference to recent Canadian and international literature on topics such as COVID-19, and expanded coverage of causal diagrams. Topics include: - Basic principles and why epidemiological reasoning matters for health professionals - Key parameters in descriptive and analytical epidemiology - Sources of error in epidemiology and ways to quantify and control error - The concept of bias, which is introduced with basic parameter estimates to make it more accessible to students - Key study designs and their vulnerability to error - How to use critical appraisal and causal judgement to evaluate epidemiological studies

The new edition of this popular textbook remains a clear and practical introduction to epidemiology for students in all areas of health. By emphasising the role of epidemiology across a broad range of health monitoring and research, it gives students an understanding of the fundamental principles common to all areas of epidemiology. It also integrates the study of infectious and chronic diseases as well as public health and clinical epidemiology. Avoiding complex mathematics, it steps through the methods and potential problems underlying health data and reports, while maintaining a balance of rigour and clarity. The nuts-and-bolts of epidemiology are embedded in the wider international health perspective through recent and classical examples across different areas of health to engage students from a range of backgrounds. Concepts are illustrated with charts and graphs, and end-of-chapter questions test understanding (with answers provided). Online resources include further exercises, slides for teaching and useful weblinks.

Principles of Epidemiology: A Self-Teaching Guide consists of a series of problem-solving exercises designed to introduce and guide readers toward an understanding of the principles and methods of epidemiology, rather than the epidemiology of specific diseases or subject areas such as ""infectious disease"" or ""chronic disease"" epidemiology. The guide has been formulated to be used by itself or as a supplement to standard textbooks. It illustrates and illuminates the principles and concepts of epidemiology and provides the reader an opportunity to practice the application of these principles in a logical sequence. The guide is divided into 14 exercises. Each exercise will help readers to understand principles or methods used by epidemiologist. Topics covered include the patterns of disease, populations at risk and risk assessment, screening for disease, investigation of an epidemic, etiology of disease, principles of causation, study design in epidemiologic investigation, data interpretation, and the uses and applications of epidemiology.

'Teaching Epidemiology' is written for those who are teaching epidemiology for the first time or for those who have to teach a new course in epidemiology. The book covers core issues as well as disease or exposure oriented topics, and provides a carefully selected set of reading material that the teacher should be familiar with